Your Samsung Galaxy's dock is getting a real One UI 9 overhaul

Samsung's Home Up customization module is getting a real upgrade with One UI 9, and a fresh leak shows what's coming: a fully customizable dock background and multi-finger gesture support, letting Galaxy owners wire swipes and pinches to system shortcuts. It's tipped to arrive with the Galaxy Z Fold 8 and Z Flip 8 before reaching the Galaxy S26 Ultra, as part of the broader One UI 9 rollout.

Home Up's dock and gesture overhaul just leaked

Leaker Galaxy Techie, who has repeatedly surfaced early Good Lock screenshots before they go official, posted a fresh batch on X this week showing what One UI 9 is bringing to Home Up, the module behind home screen customization on Galaxy phones.

The dock, which Samsung calls Favorites, appears to be getting its own background settings, with a choice of solid colors, tiles, gradients, or a custom image, plus blur and shadow layered on top. The bigger addition looks to be multi-finger gestures, which let you assign actions like opening the quick panel, screen off, brightness control, or taking a screenshot to swipes, pinches, and taps using two to five fingers at once.

Why this matters, even if you're not on Galaxy

If you're an iPhone user comparing notes with a Galaxy-owning friend, this is a gap that has stayed wide for years. iOS 26 lets you tint icons and resize widgets, but there's still no way to touch the dock's background or wire multi-finger gestures to system actions.

For Galaxy owners who already rely on Good Lock, this fits a pattern from recent Home Up updates: Samsung keeps handing over more of the interface, one piece at a time. One UI 9 runs on Android 17, and the beta is already live on the Galaxy S26 Ultra and the rest of the S26 series.

The bigger event is the Galaxy Z Fold 8 and Z Flip 8 launch on July 22, when One UI 9 goes stable.

What you'll actually be able to do

Here's what the leaked screens point to so far:

• A dedicated Favorites background setting for the dock, with solid colors, tiles, gradients, or a custom image, plus adjustable blur and shadow
• Multi-finger gestures, using two to five fingers, that can trigger actions like a screenshot, split screen, or the quick panel
• Each gesture type, swipe, pinch, or tap, gets its own separate list of assignable actions

None of this is groundbreaking on its own, but it's the kind of quality-of-life layer that adds up if you already use Good Lock daily.

Is this worth getting excited about?

I like that Samsung keeps treating Good Lock as a real feature pipeline, and Home Up in particular has quietly become one of the more useful modules in the suite.

My only hope is that Samsung irons out the rough edges before One UI 9 goes stable. A previous Home Up update warned that piling on too much dock customization can get messy fast, and that risk only grows with more options on the table.

I'd personally try the dock background first and work my way into the gestures from there.

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